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posted 5/4/2007 1:49:54 PM |
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  HopelesslyHopeful

I am sitting here, in a big black leather chair, with a peacock blue (darker hue) silk pillow behind me for support. Oh yes, and mustn't forget the varied leopardesque print cotton clad other pillow.

Here I am, typing on the black Dell Keyboard and watching the letters cross the screen of a monitor that my Dad bought in 1995, I think. Could have been 1997, though or anywhere in between. Anyway, you look at it, my E-Machine is OLD!

It's still lasted longer than the Dell, the Hewlitt Packards, the other E-Machines for that matter, and some other computers I know longer remember the name of. It's still going too, though it has never had anything done to it but some clean up and adding of memory.

People tell me that E-Machines are utter crap, all the time it seems, yet this one is 10-12 years old and is still fast enough for the "more sped up" internet that it allegedly couldn't keep handling, it has lived through journeying from Alaska, it has lived through the sticky dust of Arizona and the light floaty dust of Alaska, cat peeing festivals, hair balls from the same cats, being knocked, over, spilled on, and taken apart.

I have sprayed it down with rubbing alcohol and vacuumed it with a Shop Vac and rubbed various dusty bits of it with wet paper towels as there was no other way to clean it, and I have taken apart the box at the back with the fan, the one that says NEVER TAKE THIS APART or some such. Yes, well, you know I had to!

It was jammed with dust and cat fur, so I cleaned it, it was put back together, and life, for my little E-Machine keeps on going on.

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Comments:
Sugar_Lee

May 4 @ 3:46PM  
Well at least you turned off the electric before you cleaned the fan..... Ummm I was never going to tell a soul this! I had cleaned mine before but I was so upset it would not turn I stuck the screw driver in there and zap. I've been lit up ever since!

I did get a new power supply and my granddaughter has that machine. Funny thing is I do know better, I learned all this stuff in college in VICOM. That's was happens when you lose patience! I guess there is a morale to this story But I've completely forgotten it! Glad your works well...
misschoos

May 4 @ 3:57PM  
WestcoastMilo

May 4 @ 4:03PM  
Another Neat freak in the making ! lol

M.
Monsterboy

May 4 @ 5:32PM  
I use E-Machines right now and have no complaints. I've had problems with them in the past, but that could have been because it was my parents', and they exude a death-of-higher-electronics aura. (They never did get it to work.)
HopelesslyHopeful

May 5 @ 12:37AM  
a death-of-higher-electronics aura



My brother used to be able to make machines and such fall apart by going near them. Sometimes trailers and small sheds, as well!
HopelesslyHopeful

May 5 @ 1:15AM  
I stuck the screw driver in there and zap. I've been lit up ever since!

That explains your electric personality!
HopelesslyHopeful

May 5 @ 1:38AM  
Misschoos!!! You are just so friggin adorable! Hello and happy day to you!
HopelesslyHopeful

May 5 @ 2:32AM  
Another Neat freak in the making ! lol

No, but I am neat freak compliant: will lift my legs for the vacuum to pass by; will try to remember to use the cutting board; will take out the trash if asked; etc.

Too tired to be much neater than that .. and too interested in too many things so there are always piles of disks, books, etc.

Sometimes I would like to be more organized though, for sure!
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